Post-Licensing Education...

Sales associate and broker licensees are required to successfully complete a prescribed post-licensing education requirement before the first renewal of their licenses. This requirement has the effect of placing all initial licenses in a conditional (probationary) status because failure to complete the post-licensing education program will cause the initial license to become null and void. Sales associates who fail to complete the 45-hour post-licensing requirement and want to re-qualify for licensure by repeating the prescribed course and end-of-course exam and again passing the state licensing exam.

If a broker fails to complete the 60-hour post-licensing requirement, the broker's license becomes null and void; however, the broker may request that a sales associate's license be issued, provided he or she completes 14 hours of continuing education within the six months following expiration of the broker's license and has complied with all requirements for renewal.

Post-licensure courses may be taken at accredited colleges, universities, or community colleges; at area technical centers; at real estate proprietary schools; or from a FREC-approved sponsor. Post-licensing education courses are designed to build on the knowledge acquired in the prelicense course and to be training-oriented. Licensees who fail the post-licensing end-of-course exam must wait at least 30 days from the date of the original examination to retake the end-of-course examination. (Alternatively, licensees may choose to retake the course and, in such cases, take the end-of-course exam.)

Any licensee who has received a four-year degree in real estate from an institution of higher education is exempt from the prelicense and the post-license education requirements to become initially licensed.

• SALES ASSOCIATE QUALIFICATIONS FOR LICENSURE
• BROKER REQUIREMENTS
• REGISTRATION AND LICENSURE
• POST-LICENSING EDUCATION
• CONTINUING EDUCATION
• REAL ESTATE SERVICES
• INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EXEMPT FROM LICENSURE
• 28-Hour Reactivation Course

Information reproduced from Gaines & Coleman: Florida Real Estate Principles, Practices & Law by Linda L. Crawford produced by Dearborn Real Estate Education.